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Bald foreign bloke with a beard who used to work with Pep? Get him in!

Oh no, we may have missed out.

I thought the transfer window wasn't open yet, or is it just that players can't be registerred yet?

I thought we were blaming Cooper for this?

Does anyone think Brian Barry-Murphy might be in consideration? Has experience with Rochdale and former coach of Manchester City u21, just like Maresca. Just read that he is being linked with Cardiff.

Maybe this is what we are waiting for, when do we actually become a championship club?

Assuming we sell Hermansen and get rid of the players who don't seem to wanto be here (Faes, Vestergaard, Kristiansen, Ndidi and Winks) and hopefully convincing BEK to stay for another season then we would have the situation below. I have not included Golding and Coulibaly since they have only had a few minutes in the first team or any of the players that haven't had much game time on loan, e.g. Braybrooke. That leaves us needing 2 goalkeepers, 1 left back and 2 centre midfielder. Of course, it's worse than that as we will probably lose BEK, Souttar won't be ready for the start of the season, Pereira is injury prone and there is no way would could compete if Ayew and Daka are our two senior strikers, so we also need another CB, RB, AM and 1 or 2 strikers. GK Stolarcyk ??? ??? RB Justin Pereira CB Nelson Coady CB Okoli Souttar LB Thomas ??? CM Skipp Choudhary CM ??? ??? RW Fatawu McAteer AM El Khanouss Monga LW Mavididi Alves ST Ayew Daka Evans Players to bring in: - GK - Angus Gunn and/or Freddie Woodman, both free agents RB - Kyle Walker-Peters, out of contract and we love a Southampton defender! LB - Harry Tofolo, free CB - Harry Darling, free and RM, our future manaager knows him CM - Hayden Hackney - Might be out of our league, but might have a chance if no PL teams come in for him. He has captained M'boro, so should have good attitude, plus it would weaken an opponent CM - Matt Grimes - Decent stats, not expensive, former Swansea when RM was there. AM - Finn Azaz - If we take Hackney we might as well have Azaz as well! ST - Mihailo Ivanović - 12 goals for Milwall, he must be good. ST - Josh Sargent, again will probably go to PL, but we might as well ask!

Careful, Rudkin might take that as a challenge!

Really bad news here. Van Nistelrooy reveals he doesn't want Leicester job in new low for Foxes

Missed the last match through "personal reasons" because he was negotiating his next move.

Someone suggested earlier that we should put him in at 8, can't do worse than Soumare can he?

Ex-captain Paddy Mccarthy getting into a fight at the FA Cup Man City physio and Crystal Palace coach separated in bizarre scenes at FA Cup final

Not sure if this is correct, but is the Andy Impey mentioned in this article "our" Andy Impey? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy0k9p4l08lo

I think the biggest concern with playing a 15year old regularly is the physical impact it will have on him later in life. At this age his bones and joints are still developing, if he were training full time and playing once or twice a week it could cause problems. It's not uncommon to see professional footballers barely able to walk at 40. Some may say why care, but I am sure clubs and coaches have some obligation in this respect.

His bank balance is probably quite happy!

If he has a release clause and a club meets that clause then we can't keep him if he wants to go.

I don't think you 'throw the kids in'. We currently have Fatawu, BEK and Mavididi who would be first choice. McAteer, Ayew and BDCR as cover, with 'the kids' , Monga and Evans gaining minutes as and when they are ready in games that would encourage their confidence.

Don't think they have to pay, given that he has not signed professional contract. ?Usually goes to arbitration and we would get pennies!

I was put on gardening leave from a job when I didn't have another job to go to. I had only just joined and spent more time on gardening laeve than I did working for the company!

Yeah, I know the situations are different and, as others are saaying the manager may want to give the 'first team' more confidence, but look at the number of young players Liverpool have on the pitch.

Trey Nyoni just came on for Liverpool against Accrington!

LCFC will make the announcement shortly after he appears on the bench on Saturday!

Any good ex-Man City Assistant Coaches available or are they all waiting for Pep to get sacked?

Tomorrow.

Whoosh?